It’s a term now used by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
It involves using facts in a way the federal government doesn’t like. <- Please fact-check this!
The DHS can, it seems, treat a US citizen as a terrorist if they promote malinformation.
And, with a law Barack Obama signed on New Year’s Eve 2011, this allows the state to ‘disappear’ you without any due process at all.
Bret Weinstein takes a while to explain the situation below.
He calls this the mechanics of fascism being put into place in America.
Not, as far as anyone knows, actually used. Yet.
I watched the video a couple of hours after it was streamed yesterday. By chance.
I’m not big on fascism analogies but this seems a fair description.
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